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For me? The environment/runtime.

I can write a simple program in C/C++/go/rust/etc, and compile and run it.

In Java, a bloated IDE isn't just a recommendation, it's practically a requirement.

Evey time I try to learn Java, I smack my head against the toolchain. I ended up just giving up when I tried to wrap my head around classpath, and haven't tried since. I could probably figure it out pretty easily now, but I just don't see any allure in learning Java anyway.

One of these days, I might start using Clojure, but the JVM just feels so messy that I don't want to start.



There is no requirement to use an ide in Java. I've never written Java in anything other than emacs and never had a problem.


I'm likely overstating the problem, but that is my experience as I remember it.

My main point is that Java just isn't appealing enough in the first place for me to want to deal with the relatively insignificant issues I ran into.




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